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Summer 2023 BDUK Update on UK Project Gigabit Broadband Build

3rd Jul, 2023 (18 Comments)

The Building Digital UK agency has published their latest quarterly update (June 2023) on the Government’s £5bn rural Project Gigabit broadband rollout progress, which has so far awarded rollout contracts worth a total of £589m (state aid) to help extend coverage to an extra 378,450 of the hardest to reach premises.

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JT Plan £80m Rollout of 5G Mobile on Jersey – Channel Islands

2nd Jul, 2023 (0 Comments)

State-owned ISP JT (Jersey Telecom) has announced that they are planning to invest £80 million in order to roll out a new 5G based ultrafast mobile broadband network across Jersey (English Channel Island), which is to be deployed using Ericsson’s technology (radio kit etc.).

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CityFibre Win Three Major UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contracts

1st Jul, 2023 (48 Comments)

The UK Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme has announced that CityFibre have secured three major build contracts for Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk in England. The combined award is worth £488m (£318m state aid and £170m private) and will see the operator extend 10Gbps capable FTTP to 218,000 premises (500k inc. commercial build).

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2023 H1 – UK Full Fibre Broadband Coverage Rises to 53 Percent

1st Jul, 2023 (15 Comments)

The latest biannual summary of UK fixed broadband coverage for H1 2023 has found that “full fibre” (FTTP) ISP networks have surged to reach 52.77% of premises (up from 45.13% in H2 2022) and 76.22% are within reach of “gigabit” speeds (up from 72.66%). Read on for details of England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland.

UK Disappoints in Global Comparison of 5G Mobile Broadband Speeds

1st Jul, 2023 (25 Comments)

Benchmarking firm Opensignal, which specialises in testing the performance of mobile networks, has published new research that reveals how the UK compares with the rest of the world for 5G based mobile broadband speeds (downloads and uploads) and availability. Suffice to say, we sit at the wrong end of the table.

BT Reveal Cause of 999 Emergency UK Call Handling Outage

30th Jun, 2023 (25 Comments)

Broadband and telecoms giant BT has revealed that last Sunday’s outage and disruption to their 999 emergency services number, which resulted in 11,470 unique emergency calls being “unsuccessfully connected“, was caused by a “complex software issue” that had never previously been seen through their testing regime.

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK Suffers More Email Problems UPDATE

30th Jun, 2023 (75 Comments)

Customers of Virgin Media’s (VMO2) email service are once again reporting problems today. The situation occurred after the provider attempted to conduct maintenance on the service which, instead of making things better, only appears to have resulted in a new set of “intermittent issues” (connectivity problems).

Scotland’s R100 FTTP Broadband Build Tops 24,000 Premises

30th Jun, 2023 (3 Comments)

The Scottish Government has, in response to a Freedom of Information Request, published a useful progress update on their £600m Reaching 100% (R100) project with Openreach (BT), which reveals that 24,194 premises have now been covered by their rollout of a new “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) capable ISP network.

Grain Finally Puts FTTP Broadband Live in Hull UK to Rival KCOM

30th Jun, 2023 (14 Comments)

Network operator and broadband ISP Grain (Grain Connect) has today finally announced that they’ve launched their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network – using Point-to-Point (PTP) architecture – in the East Yorkshire (England) city of Hull. But at present it’s only available to around 20,000 premises.

Zzoomm’s Full Fibre Network Hits 150,000 UK Premises Milestone

30th Jun, 2023 (3 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zzoomm, which aims to cover 1 million premises in 85 UK towns with their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network by the end of 2025, have today announced that their rollout has now covered 150,000 premises (Ready for Service) across 29 locations – an extra 50,000 since February 2023.

UK 5G vs 4G Mobile Broadband Speeds at Different Times of Day

30th Jun, 2023 (16 Comments)

Mobile benchmarking firm Opensignal has produced an interesting insight into how download speeds on 4G and 5G networks – across operators including EE (BT), Vodafone, O2 (VMO2) and Three UK – compare, both generally and at different times of the day.

Cloud Gaming Coming to Netgem’s Broadband Based TV Boxes

29th Jun, 2023 (1 Comment)

Entertainment and technology firm Netgem, which provides set-top-box and video streaming solutions to broadband ISPs in the UK (and other countries) to help them launch Pay TV products for consumers, has signed a new deal with Gamestream that looks set to bring Cloud Gaming services to the platform.

All Change At the Top of UK Wireless and Full Fibre ISP Orbital Net

29th Jun, 2023 (0 Comments)

Independent Kent-based UK ISP Orbital Net, which also runs the Vfast sub-brand that sells packages to homes via a mix of wireless (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks, has today announced a few major changes to its executive committee. After some 25 years, CEO Darren Brown is retiring, and Ben Doherty will be filling his shoes.

Toob Expand FTTP via CityFibre into Worthing, Brighton and Hove

29th Jun, 2023 (9 Comments)

Network builder and UK broadband ISP toob has today announced that their coverage via CityFibre’s existing Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has been expanded again. This time they’ve moved toward East Sussex and are now becoming available to homes in Worthing, Brighton and Hove.

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Virgin Media O2 UK Start Selling XGS-PON Powered FTTP Broadband

29th Jun, 2023 (101 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today announced that they’ve officially started selling services powered by their new 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) lines, which is currently being rolled out as into new areas, via nexfibre, and as an upgrade on their legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure.

Chancellor’s Meet with UK Regulators Delivers no Surprises for Broadband Prices

29th Jun, 2023 (31 Comments)

Consumers hoping for some respite from spiralling price hikes on their broadband ISP and mobile operator bills will have to keep waiting. Yesterday’s meeting between the Chancellor of the UK Government, Jeremy Hunt, and the heads from all of the UK’s major regulators, including Ofcom, appears to have produced nothing new.

Lords Committee – UK Gov Needs Credible Plan to Tackle Digital Exclusion

29th Jun, 2023 (6 Comments)

A new Lords Committee report has today become the latest to try and tackle the age-old problem of Digital Exclusion (i.e. getting everybody online and ensuring they have the right skills). The Committee finds that the scale of the problem is a “direct consequence of political lethargy” and highlights the UK Government’s “lack of a credible plan.”